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Researcher gets NSF grant to create mutant maize lines

A Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) researcher at Cornell University has received a grant to help assemble a unique database of DNA mutations in maize (corn). The project not only will allow researchers to study the effects of knocking out the function of single genes, one at a time, but also will create seeds for each mutation, or disrupted gene. The seeds will be made widely available to r...

$6.5 Million Grant for Microarray Center at Yale School of Medicine

In 1909, while harvesting a typical corn crop (Zea mays) in Illinois, a field worker noticed a plant so unusual that it was initially believed to be a new species. Its "peculiarly shaped ear" was "laid aside as a curiosity" and the specimen was designated Zea ramosa (from the Latin ramosus, "having many branches"). Due to the alteration of a single gene, later named ramosa1, both the ear and the...

MSU researchers receive $4 million grant to uncover gene functions

A collaboration of Michigan State University researchers will use a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to uncover the functions of genes in a plant - research which may ultimately lead to improvements in human health and agriculture. In a collaborative effort spanning several departments, MSU scientists will determine the functions of roughly 4,400 nuclear genes from the...

Virulizin granted orphan drug status in Europe

Leading marine scientists for the first time have assessed dolphin and porpoise populations around the world which are severely threatened by entanglement in fishing gear and recommended nine urgent priorities for action in a report commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund. These nine projects highlight species threatened by bycatch that will most likely benefit from immediate action and will cont...

New NIAID grants strengthen national biodefense and emerging infectious diseases research network

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced four-year grants totaling approximately $80 million for two new Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (RCE). The grants to the University of California, Irvine, and Colorado State University (Fort Collins) mark the completi...

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Medical College lands $8.1M grant to detect bird flu, bioterror agents

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UW professors get grants to engage technology for course delivery

Cramer, professor Hussain Bahia, program assistant Carole Kraak and staff from Engineering M...

UW scientist wins Pew grant to study little-known immune cells

Jenny Gumperz, an assistant professor of medical microbiology and immunology, will receive $60,000 per year for the next four years from the Pew Charitable Trusts, an independent nonprofit organization that annua...

Medical College researchers receive new grants to enhance discovery of heart-protecting anesthetics

Zeljko Bosnjak, Ph.D., professor and vi...

Platypus Technologies receives $1.6 million NIH grant

The Small Business Innovation Research grant is for continued development of the company's proprietary liquid crystal based technology to enable faster screening of drugs for treatment of cancer. The com...

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Indian Doctor granted US patent on organ regeneration

Dr. Balakrishna Ganapat Rao Matapurkar, from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi has created history of sorts by winning the first patent on organ regeneration from the American patent office for his technique in successfully regenerating / repairing organs in human beings. A few weeks ago the American patent office granted him a patent on this technique. Dr. Matapurkar was able to...

Grant of $7 million for Orissa Medical College from Japan

Japan Thursday announced a grant of $7 million for upgrading a medical college in Orissa.// "The grant assistance would enable the Sardar Vallavbhai Patel Postgraduate Institute of Paediatrics (in Cuttack) to improve its medical facilities and effectively contribute towards dispensation of healthcare to a wider population," said a statement from the Japanese embassy. Notes c...

Pharmaceutical industries grant for R&D to be monitored

The Office of Fair Trading is responsible for checking the profits and safety of the drugs the pharmaceutical //manufacturers sell to the NHS. They have to monitor that only branded and quality medicines are sold and the prices should be reasonable. The Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme [PPRS] is a voluntary organization which monitors and legislates the agreement of the pricing an...

Woodruff Foundation Grant To Support Doctorate Of Nursing Practice Program

In a step which is expected to alleviate the national nursing shortage by producing more qualified nursing professors, allowing nursing schools to enroll more students, the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation has awarded // $995,000 to the Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing to support its new doctorate of nursing practice program, the 10th of its kind in the nation. Thanking the A...

$2.4 Million Grant To Unravel The Mystery Of Language Recognition.

Greg Hickok, neuroscientist, professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine, was recently awarded a grant by The National Institute of //Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) which is part of The National Institute of Health ($2.4 million for 5 years). This will help in his research to understand how the brain converts sound waves into meaningful la...

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Vastox Awarded £400,000 Grant to Support R&D at Carbohydrate Chemistry Facility

OXFORD, England, 20 June 2007 - VASTox plc (AIM: VOX), a leadingUK biotechnology company, announces that it has been awarded agrant of £400,000 by the Welsh Development Agency(”WDA”) under the SMARTCymru scheme. The grant,which runs for 12 months, will support the research and developmentwork undertaken at VASTox’s Aberystwyth facility and providesrecognition of...

Allos Therapeutics' PDX Granted Orphan Medicinal Product Designation by the European Commission

WESTMINSTER, Colo., April 19, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Allos Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that the Commission of theEuropean Communities, with a favorable opinion of the Committee forOrphan Medicinal Products of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA),has granted orphan drug designation to the Company's novelantifolate PDX (pralatrexate) for the treatment of patients withperipher...

Pixantrone Granted Fast Track Designation by FDA for Relapsed Indolent NHL Patients

Proposed Phase III Trial Has the Potential to Demonstrate an Effecton a Serious or Life Threatening Aspect of This Disease SEATTLE, May 07, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CellTherapeutics, Inc. (CTI) announced today it received fast trackdesignation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) forpixantrone, a novel anthracenedione, being investigated for thepotential treatment of rel...